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96.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 691.3484 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 96.0% of a perfect 720.
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Smoky Cattle has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 114 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smoky Cattle has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Smoky Cattle's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoky Cattle on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Smoky Cattle's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 169.6684 | 171.97 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 166.2516 | 169.98 | top 51% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8456 | 172.5484 | 173.70 | top 29% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 170.8228 | 171.97 | top 29% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 36% | 96% | 95.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 52 / 158 (691.3484) | 118 (169.6684) | 57 (173.7144) | 39 (174.8456) | 42 (173.1200) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 153 / 401 (683.8856) | 93 (174.2628) | 266 (166.2516) | 134 (172.5484) | 129 (170.8228) |